Computer Assessed Design – A Vehicle of Architectural Communication and a Design Tool

摘要

In comparison with the limits of the traditional representation tools, the development of the computer graphics constitutes an opportunity to assert architectural values. The differences between communication codes of the architects and public are diminished; the architectural ideas can be represented in a coherent, intelligible and attractive way, so that they get more chances to be materialized according to the thinking of the creator. Concurrently, the graphic software have been improving the quality of design activity, transforming it into an intensive design and management process correlated with the others building design disciplines involved. The computer modeling is today a refined and sophisticated artistic discipline that successfully reinterprets, communicates and promotes architectural concepts in the new virtual world. It also constitutes a creative process that helps optimizing and refining design concepts. It also makes possible the invention of new types of spaces and volumes whose structure could not be designed by traditional means. The computer graphics have changed the way architects create and communicate. But, however, the computer design techniques would evolve, at the basis of the architect’s profession remain the skills available at any time: intuition and creativity in modeling space and light, the ability of using the expressivity of materials.